Bradford Ecumenical Home

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next area we looked at was nursing, in which this facility received a B-. This actually proved to be this facility's worst category. This is still not a poor grade. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.